Quality of Handover to a Post Anaesthesia Care Unit in a Children's Hospital

Completed

• Conditions: Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers

• Registration Number: NCT02114866
• Lead Sponsor: University of Witten/Herdecke

Brief Summary

Postoperative handovers to the post anaesthesia care unit (PACU) in adult anaesthesia are described as incomplete and unstructured, although their relevance for the patient safety is well known. It must be assumed that for children, this handover is at least comparable important.

With a self-developed checklist information transfer during postoperative handovers will be documented and subsequently compared with patient information in anaesthesia records.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-11
• Primary Completion: 2013-03
• Study Completion: 2013-03
• Status Verified: 2014-04
• Study First Submitted: 2014-04-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-04-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-04-12
• Study First Posted: 2014-04-15
• Last Update Posted: 2014-04-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 441

Inclusion Criteria

• All patients transferred to the PACU after surgery

Exclusion Criteria

• Age > 18 years

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quantity of Information Loss during Postoperative Handovers in the PACU	Three month